Eurasia Group

U.S. and EU officials expressed readiness to deepen sanctions against Russia, which they say has massed 40,000 troops on Ukraine’s border and is fomenting unrest after its annexation of Crimea last month.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces one task above all others when she returns to her desk on the seventh floor of the Chancellery: fixing the biggest shift to clean energy of any developed country in history.

Russia’s central bank held back from raising interest rates after a surprise increase last month, a pause that may prove brief after inflation quickened past the target range to the fastest in 10 months.